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Norwich social centre update - new name, opening gig, attempted entombment foile

Sophie al-Centre | 19.11.2007 17:27 | Free Spaces | Social Struggles | Cambridge | London

Some quick updates from Norwich's exciting brand spanking new squatted social centre.

* We now have a name! I am proud to formally announce the existence of Section Six Social Centre.

* On Saturday we held our inaugural gig, a well-attended and extremely convivial evening of acoustic music featuring Paul Gill and Sam Choi, Spidermilk and Twisted Routes. The evening was made a little more stressful than necessary by kids breaking stuff in an adjacent building and the police trying to hold us responsible and gain entry, but we managed to calm them down and have a great evening.

* On Sunday evening and Monday morning workmen and security from Dardan Security announced their intention to board up the front door, thereby preventing several people including three young children from exiting the building. Thankfully on both occasions the police were eventually persuaded that entombment of living people had potentially embarrassing legal consequences and asked them to stop working.

* Come and visit! We could really do with more people to help out and keep the rota staffed, especially during these early days of security paranoia.


UPCOMING EVENTS

Thursday November 22nd, 4pm: Bike maintenance / repair workshop followed by bike related films New York Critical Mass and Belleville Rendezvous.

Friday November 16th, 8pm: '80s disco featuring the PortaParty.

Saturday November 17th, 8pm: Live bands Fletch Cadillac, Stem Cells, Skatabrain (tbc) +Ska DJ (tbc) + more (tbc)

Monday November 26th: Climate Change evening, including a showing of the environmental documentary "The Planet".

Coming soon (we hope...):

* More gigs
* Capoeira
* Hopefully we'll be adding some photos to this report when we can find the right cable for our camera....

Sophie al-Centre
- Homepage: http://www.myspace.com/wherewillitbe

Additions

Date correction

19.11.2007 21:23

oops. yes the dates were wrong. Correct dates are:

Thursday November 22nd, 4pm: Bike maintenance / repair workshop followed by bike related films New York Critical Mass and Belleville Rendezvous.

Friday November 23rd, 8pm: '80s disco featuring the PortaParty.

Saturday November 24th, 8pm: Live bands Fletch Cadillac, Stem Cells, Skatabrain (tbc) +Ska DJ (tbc) + more (tbc)

Monday November 26th: Climate Change evening, including a showing of the environmental documentary "The Planet".

sophie al-centre
- Homepage: http://www.myspace.com/wherewillitbe


Comments

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  1. Dates — Daf
  2. whose squats? — a kid
  3. Re: whose squats? — Sophie al-Centre
  4. Nice one — Interested observer.
  5. random comment — me